Trump deploying California National Guard over governor’s objections to LA to quell protests

By MICHELLE L PRICE ERIC THAYER and MORGAN LEE PARAMOUNT Calif AP President Donald Trump is deploying California National Guard troops to Los Angeles over the objections of Gov Gavin Newsom after a second day of clashes between hundreds of protesters and federal immigration agents in riot gear Related Articles Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in the US charged with human smuggling as attorneys vow ongoing fight US Chinese bureaucrats to meet in London next week for new round of contract talks X users were glued to the Musk v Trump blowup Could this be good for the platform What cases are left on the Supreme Court s crisis docket Here s a look State Dept says current US visas from progress ban countries will not be revoked Sporadic confrontations broke out again Saturday in the heavily Latino satellite city of Paramount south of Los Angeles Agents unleashed tear gas flash-bang explosives and pepper balls and protesters hurled rocks and cement at Frontier Patrol patrol vehicles Smoke wafted from small piles of burning refuse in the streets Tensions were high after a series sweeps by immigration officials the previous day in LA s fashion district and other locations as the weeklong tally of immigrant arrests climbed past and a prominent union leader was arrested while protesting and accused of impeding law enforcement The White House informed in a declaration that Trump would deploy the Guard to address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester Gov Gavin Newsom a Democrat objected to the move and revealed in a post on the social platform X that the move was purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions In a signal of the administration s aggressive approach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened in a post on X to deploy the U S military If violence continues active-duty Marines at Camp Pendleton will also be mobilized they are on high alert Hegseth revealed Trump s order came after morning and afternoon clashes had died down in Paramount and neighboring Compton where a car was set fire At the entrance to a business park across from the back of a Home Depot immigration officers faced off with demonstrators who set off fireworks and pulled shopping carts into the street broke up cinder blocks and pelted a procession of Dividing line Patrol vans as they departed and careened down a boulevard Paramount Mayor Peggy Lemons notified multiple news outlets that no immigration raids took place in her city and demonstrators appeared to respond to viable preparations federal agents outside Homeland Defense Department facilities They re just frightened Lemons disclosed And when you handle things the way that this appears to be handled it s not a surprise that chaos would follow In other clashes demonstrators kicked at a Demarcation Patrol sedan and Los Angeles County officers also deployed flash-bangs Law enforcement personnel and protesters mostly stayed at a distance kicking tear gas cannisters back and forth amid streams of white gas Among several hundred protesters a handful were bloodied by projectiles More than a dozen people were arrested and accused of impeding immigration agents according to the U S Attorney s Office for the Central District of California which the names and mug shots of selected of those arrested on social media Trump federalized part of California s National Guard under what is known as Title authority which places him not the governor atop the chain of command according to Newsom s office White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt noted in a comment that the work the immigration executives were doing when met with protests is essential to halting and reversing the invasion of illegal criminals into the United States In the wake of this violence California s feckless Democrat leaders have entirely abdicated their responsibility to protect their citizens Edge Patrol personnel deploy tear gas during a demonstration over the dozens detained in an operation by federal immigration agents a day earlier in Paramount section of Los Angeles Saturday June AP Photo Eric Thayer Protesters kick the side of a Confines Patrol car during a demonstration over the dozens detained in an operation by federal immigration agents a day earlier in Paramount section of Los Angeles Saturday June AP Photo Eric Thayer Protesters confront law enforcement agents outside an industrial park in Paramount section of Los Angeles on Saturday June AP Photo Eric Thayer Smoke fills the street as protesters confront Margin Patrol personnel during a demonstration over the dozens detained in an operation by federal immigration agents a day earlier in Paramount section of Los Angeles Saturday June AP Photo Eric Thayer A fire burns as a protester stands across the way from Territory line Patrol personnel in riot gear and gas masks outside an industrial park in the Paramount section of Los Angeles on Saturday June AP Photo Eric Thayer Show Caption of Boundary Patrol personnel deploy tear gas during a demonstration over the dozens detained in an operation by federal immigration executives a day earlier in Paramount section of Los Angeles Saturday June AP Photo Eric Thayer Expand The president s move came shortly after he issued a threat on his social media grid saying that if Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass did not do their jobs then the Federal Cabinet will step in and solve the predicament RIOTS LOOTERS the way it should be solved Trump signed the order shortly before he went to attend a UFC fight in New Jersey where he sat ringside with boxer Mike Tyson Newsom reported in his comment that local government are able to access law enforcement assistance at a moment s notice and there is now no unmet need This is the wrong mission and will erode general trust he added In Paramount certain demonstrators jeered at officers while recording the events on smartphones ICE out of Paramount We see you for what you are a woman explained through a megaphone You are not welcome here One handheld sign read No Human Being is Illegal Protests continued into the evening in the city where more than of residents identify themselves as Latino Several hundred demonstrators gathered near a doughnut shop and government held up barbed wire to keep the crowd back Flash-bangs went off particular protesters stared fires and the smell of chemical irritants was in the air The California Highway Patrol explained Newsom directed it to deploy additional officers to maintain populace safety In Trump sought governors of several states to deploy their National Guard troops to Washington D C to quell protests after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police A multitude of agreed and sent troops Trump also threatened at the time to invoke the Insurrection Act for those protests an intervention rarely seen in modern American history But then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper pushed back saying the law should be invoked only in the bulk urgent and dire of situations Trump did not invoke the act during his first term and he did not do so Saturday according to Leavitt and Newsom Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers executed search warrants at multiple locations Friday including outside a clothing warehouse in the fashion district The action came after a judge uncovered probable cause that the employer was using fictitious documents for particular of its workers according to representatives for Homeland Guard Investigations and the U S Attorney s Office DHS disclosed in a declaration that latest ICE operations in Los Angeles resulted in the arrest of immigrants including five people linked to criminal organizations and people with prior criminal histories Among those arrested at protests Friday was David Huerta regional president of the System Employees International Union The Justice Department substantiated that he was being held Saturday at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles ahead of a scheduled Monday court appearance It was not clear whether Huerta had legal representation Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for his immediate release warning of a disturbing pattern of arresting and detaining American citizens for exercising their right to free speech Mayor Bass commented the crackdown was meant to sow terror in her city ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons chided her for LA s response to the protests Mayor Bass took the side of chaos and lawlessness over law enforcement Lyons announced in a comment Make no mistake ICE will continue to enforce our nation s immigration laws and arrest criminal illegal aliens Lee released from Santa Fe New Mexico and Price from Bridgewater New Jersey Associated Press writers Zeke Miller and Eric Tucker in Washington and Rebecca Boone in Boise Idaho contributed